Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting Palestinian residents, municipal workers, homes, and vehicles. During the incidents, Israeli occupation forces detained three municipal workers and, according to local sources, protected colonizers in several locations.
In Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, colonizers attacked a municipal crew as it headed to restore electricity to homes that have been under siege for about a week.
بحماية قوات الاحتلال، مستوطنون يهاجمون طواقم فنية تابعة لشركات الكهرباء والمياه حاولوا الوصول إلى المنازل الفلسطينية المحاصرة في قرية قصرة بنابلس#الأخبار pic.twitter.com/7D4OtyoFay
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) August 15, 2026
Local sources told WAFA News that the crew had obtained prior coordination to reconnect power, which colonizers had cut more than a week earlier.
مشاهد حصرية للجزيرة تظهر معاناة عائلات محاصرة ببلدة قصرة جنوبي نابلس#تقرير: ليث جعار#الأخبار pic.twitter.com/czEwOExdNd
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) August 15, 2026
The sources said colonizers attacked and surrounded the crew before Israeli forces intervened and detained three municipal workers.
Israeli colonizers have besieged the homes of three families in Qusra for about a week while Israeli forces remain deployed in the area.
The colonizers have attempted for about four months to break into and seize one of the besieged homes. Family members maintain a round-the-clock presence at the property, working in shifts to protect it.
They have repeatedly cut electricity to the home, thrown stones at it and placed it under siege. The property stands on Ras al-Ain mountain, south of Nablus.
Israeli occupation soldiers expel about twenty families from various homes in the village of Kusra and take over their rooftops, concurrent with settlers besieging homes and dozens of them hiding on the outskirts of the village to avoid evacuation by the army. The village… pic.twitter.com/of6SQ1wrkY
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) August 13, 2026
In a separate incident near the Ein Shibli military roadblock, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, colonizers severely beat and injured a 16-year-old Palestinian boy.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its crews treated the teenager after the assault. The PRCS added that Israeli forces delayed the ambulance for more than an hour before its crews could reach him.
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Clubs, iron bars, and stones.
Jewish settler-terrorists from “Esh Kodesh” illegal settlement violently attacked Palestinians, and Israeli and foreign activists, who were planting trees in the village of Kusra (قصرة), south of Nablus. Soldiers shot in the… pic.twitter.com/4Y9pmTX1FP— מסתכלים לכיבוש בעיניים (@Mistaclim) July 21, 2024
In the Jabal Mufid area of Arraba, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank, colonizers grazed sheep among Palestinian homes on Saturday evening under the protection of Israeli forces.
Local sources said the colonizers then assaulted several residents while Israeli forces deployed throughout the area and protected them.
The incident occurred amid escalating colonizer attacks around Arraba and continued efforts to expand colonies and seize Palestinian land.
In separate attacks northeast of Ramallah, colonizers targeted al-Mughayyir and the outskirts of neighboring Sinjil.
Local sources said colonizers attacked the Shaab al-Louz area on the western outskirts of al-Mughayyir and attempted to break into several homes before residents confronted them. No injuries were reported.
Colonizers also attacked Palestinian vehicles in the Marj Si’ plain east of al-Mughayyir, along the road leading to the neighboring village of Abu Falah.
Israeli forces then invaded al-Mughayyir, deployed across several parts of the village and fired live ammunition, tear-gas canisters, and concussion grenades. The soldiers also broke into a home; no abductions were reported.
The tear gas caused several Palestinians, including children, to suffer breathing difficulties, local sources said.
In nearby Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah, colonizers invaded the town’s northern outskirts and released livestock among Palestinian homes.
The incidents occurred amid continuing colonizer attacks and frequent Israeli military invasions affecting Palestinian communities northeast of Ramallah, according to local sources.
Anti-colonizaion activist Osama Makhamra stated that the five sustained bruises and other injuries during the assault on the village.
The attackers also released livestock into the surroundings and courtyards of the home of Salem Mohammad al-Hathaleen, causing damage to crops, and private property.
In a separate incident, colonizers stoned the vehicle of Emad Houshiya, a resident of al-Markaz village in Masafer Yatta, while he was traveling along al-Zuweidin road on his way home. Damage was reported to the vehicle, though no injuries were recorded.
Elsewhere, in Wadi al-Rakhim, south of Yatta in the southern West Bank, colonizers attacked the home of Youssef Shnaran and vandalized property belonging to the family.
In Khillet al-Himma, also south of Yatta in the southern West Bank, colonizers, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, released livestock around Palestinian homes and prevented residents from leaving their houses, local sources said.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that Israeli forces and colonizers carried out 2,256 attacks against Palestinians, their land, and their property during July. Israeli forces were responsible for 1,458 incidents, while colonizers carried out 798, the commission said.
The commission recorded 260 attacks in the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, 247 in Nablus, 190 in Jenin, 185 in Bethlehem and 170 in Hebron.
The commission said the figures reflected coordination between Israeli military activity and colonizer attacks, asserting that military protection and support enable the attacks to continue and create lasting conditions on the ground.
